Despite what some first-time (English-speaking) listeners may think, Ivan Kupala (Иван Купала) is in fact a group, not an individual. Hailing from St Petersburg: Denis Fyodorov, Alexei Rumyantsev and Alexei Ivanov were all working at the same radio station when they teamed up and decided to make modernised versions of Russian folk-songs. The name is a reference to Ivan Kupala, the Slavic summer solstice day. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.